Hood mounting for baby carriages



Feb. 20, 1923.

.l. E. FROMAN.

HOOD MOUNTING FOR BABY CABRIAGES.

FILED JAN. 5. 1922.

2 SHEEIS-SHEET 1.

Feb. 20, 1923. 1,446,341. J. E. FROMAN.

HOOD MOUNTING FOR BABY CARRIAGES.

FILED JAN. 5, 1922- 2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

Patented 1%23.

r tified JAMES E. FEOM.A.N, OF EVANSi TILLE, INDIANA.

HOOD MOUNTTNG FOB BABY CARBTAGES. 7

Application filed January 5, 1922. Serial No. 527,084.

Mountings for Baby Carriages, of whichthe, 'ii'ollowing 18 aspecification.

This invention relates to hood mountings or brackets for baby carriages,the object being to provide improved means for rais;

ing and lowering the hood and securing it at any elevation; further,improved adjustable locking means for connecting the hood to the body ofthe carriage in, such manner that it may be tilted and held at anydesired angle and. also, adjusted. lengthwise of the.

body of the carriage.

My improvements not only carry out the foregoing); objects but they alsocontemplate the provision of an improved quick-detachable connectionenabling the hood to be easily applied to, or removed from, the body.

The particular improvements represented by the various features andcombinations of my invention are set forth fully hereinafter and recitedin the appended-claims. The showingof the invention is to be consideredas illustrative, instead of restrictive, of the scope thereof asmodifications may be resorted to.

in the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a baby carriage equipped with the hoodmounting constituting the invention. 1

Fig. 2, a detail inside view of the hood. showing the complete inventionfor supporting one side thereof.

Fig. 3, a detail bottom view of one of the bars.

Fig. 4, a detail, broken, side elevation of the spring, the bar, disk,and other parts in position for removal.

Fig. 5, a bottom view thereof; and

Figs. 6, 7 and 8, detail views of the clamping devices for securing thehook at different elevations.

The body of the baby carriage is shown at 1 and the hood at 2.

Bars 3 having pointed angled ends 4 are secured to the sides of the body1 by means of said points 4:. These bars have longitudinal slots 5 andenlarged openings 7.

Secured to the inside of the hood on opposite sides thereof are upperand lower metal strips 8, 9, to which, in each instance,

is fastened an upright sleeve which has a cut out portion 11 providing aflexible shoe 12. Secured to the strips 8, 9, is a boxing 13 connectedto the sleeve by a strap 14. A h andle 15 which is providedwith anirregular head or cam 16 has collars'l'? which retainit where journaledin boxing 13. The ram 1.6 bears against the shoe 12.

Slidable through the sleeve 10, in each instance, is a rod 18 which isclamped firmly to the sleeve by the shoe 12 when the handle 15 isproperlyeperated for that purpose but-which is released on swinging thehandle 1 to release the shoe12. The cam or head. 16 presses against. orreleases, shoe 12 according to the position of handle 15. Secured to thelower end of each rod 18 is a double or'bifurcated head 19. A

Journa-led or pivoted to the double head 19 and lying between thesections thereof is a disk 20 which is provided with a flat ere tension21 having a shoulder 22 and an end part23 which passes through the bar3. A

cam handle 24 is pivoted at 25 to the end of the part 23. Bearingagainst the upper face of the bar 3 is a double spring brake 27 whoseends bear on the respective sections of the double head 19. The part 23passes through an opening in the spring 27 and the shoulder 22 bears on.said double spring. Beneath the bar 3 is a washer 28 which bears againstsaid. bar and is engaged by the cam on thehandh-x 24iv The washer 28 isof a shape adapting it to pass through the hole 7 when. the handle 24:is loose and said washer is tilted so that it will go through said holein an endwise movement. The handle 24: is also of a shape and dimensionto pass through the hole 7 Consequently provision is made for taking offthe top 2 .bv releasing the handle 24L and passing it through the hole7, together with the washer 28, the bars 3 then remaining on the body 1.

My improvements provide for vertical adjustment of the hood 2 on therods 18 regard less of the angle to which said rods are tilted.Provision is also made for clamping the rods 18 at any angle and,further, for sliding said rods, with the hood 2, forwardly or rearwardlyof the body;

What I claim is: Y

1. In a hood mounting for baby carriages, the combination with the bodyof the carriage, of bars carried thereby having slots provided withenlarged openings, a hood, supports connected. to the hood which haveheads, other heads pivoted to the heads aforesaid and provided Withextensions or shanks passing through the slots in the bars, spring meansengaged by said extensions or shanks and which bear on the heads firstnamed, and locking cain levers -ing means may be bodily removed ordetached from the bars.

In a hood mounting for baby carriages, the combination with a body, ofhorizontally arranged bars carried thereby, having openings, a hood,upwardly extending rods, clamp-slides to which the rods pivoted, saidslides being adjustably inounted on the top of said bars, means beingpie vided beneath the bars for securing the clamp-slides Where adjustedand fastening the rods in any position to which they may beswung, andreleasable clamping devices 25 for securing the opposite sides of thehood to the rods so that the hood may be raised or lowered on said rods,said securing means being removable through the openings in the bars,whereby the hood may be raised, tilted, moved bodily forward orrearward, or completely detached, together with said clamp slides androds, from said bars.

In a hood mounting for a baby carriage, the combination with attachingde vices adapted to be applied to the sides of against the attachingdevices, said brake,

springs being released or tightenedby operating the tensioning means.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JAMES FROMA-N

